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Evolving U.S. International Tax Rules

Entrepreneur's Playbook | Episode: 715 | Guests: Frank Landreneau | 0
Your knowledge of the U.S. international tax rules—as they continue to evolve—will determine whether today’s new rules are opportunities or are traps for the unwary. Jen gets more updates from Frank Landreneau, one of PKF Texas’ international tax directors.

Jen: This is the PKF Texas Entrepreneur’s Playbook. I’m Jen Lemanski and I’m back again with Frank Landreneau, one of our International Tax Directors. Frank, welcome back to The Playbook.

Frank: Thanks, Jen. Thanks for having me back.

Jen: We’ve talked about GILTI and FDII in previous episodes and now I know there’s some more foreign impacts with the new tax reform. Is there anything else you can share with us about that?

Frank: Yes, in response to the Tax Reform Act, Treasury has had to come up with new rules for four tax credits, for example. Previously, we had two types of foreign tax credit baskets. That’s being the general limitation or general business income basket, and then the passive income basket. Now, there’s proposed regulations that have come out in November, have come up with two additional baskets. One for branch income and one for GILTI income, as well as some new rules relating to how expenses are apportioned and allocated to foreign income.

Jen: Can you go a little bit more in depth into those tax baskets?

Frank: In general, a foreign tax credit basket is basically saying that a US taxpayer gets foreign taxes to credit against its US tax liability. However, the baskets basically say we’re going to limit the tax credit to this type of foreign income. It does limit the taxpayer’s ability to cross credit. So, for example, if you have income in one basket that you don’t really need, like excess credits, you can’t take those foreign credits and credit that US tax against another type of foreign income. So, it does kind of result in a catch-22 sometimes for the taxpayer.

Jen: Interesting. You mentioned branch income. What is that?

Frank: Branch income is sort of another way of saying, let’s say a US taxpayer opens a foreign office, but you didn’t actually open up a separate legal entity in order to conduct that business, but it’s really more an extension of your US business. Basically, the new rule is basically you come up with a foreign tax credit basket that’s says, if you have this branch income, that’s a separate classification of income that we’re going to associate those foreign taxes with.

Jen: Ok, so I’m sure there’s a little bit more detail we’ll need to get into in another episode. What do you think?

Frank: Absolutely. There are opportunities and then there are also traps for the unwary.

Jen: Perfect. We’ll do that next time.

Frank: Sounds great.

Jen: To learn more about other international topics, visit pkftexas.com/internationaldesk. This has been another Thought Leader Production brought to you by PKF Texas – The Entrepreneur’s Playbook. Tune in next week for another chapter.

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